Christopher Emms, the British blockchain pioneer who is ចង់ by the FBI for allegedly breaking US sanctions on North Korea has reportedly been hired to provide crypto commentary by Russian state broadcaster RT.
Emms was accused of organizing a crypto conference in Pyongyang, North Korea in April 2019 at which he allegedly explained to his audience how blockchain could be used to evade US sanctions.
He subsequently made his way to Saudi Arabia. After ឈ្នះ an extradition case against the US, the 31-year-old escaped to Russia.
Since settling in Moscow, Emms has wasted no time in contributing to RT’s pro-Russia and anti-West propaganda. Indeed, one of his first productions is a lecture on inflation wrapped with an invective against the West.
In his lecture, Emms claims that inflation in the West is caused purely by money printing and paints Russia as being totally blameless. He also criticized the West’s financial support for Ukraine and voiced support for a multi-polar world which, according to him, would bring a truly global free market.
Inផ្សេងទៀត លក្ខណៈពិសេស, Emms applauds Russia’s test roll-out of its digital rouble and in another, he ពិភាក្សា។ how to break SWIFT’s monopoly on global payments.
Links with Maltese criminal lawyer revealed
Last week, independent outlet The Shift បានបង្ហាញ that Emms runs a medical cannabis company in Malta alongside Gianluca Caruana Curran, a lawyer defending businessman Yorgen Fenech. Fenech is accused of masterminding the ឃាតកម្ម of journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Caruana Curran has previously been ចោទ with attempting to bribe a journalist in relation to the case.